Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- downtown
- Geographic extent
- Downtown overlay districtOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. over existing C-1 zoning
Uses
Permitted by right51
- Retail food stores
- Bakeries and catering
- Florist shops
- Wearing apparel stores
- Jewelry stores
- Drugstores
- Fabric shops
- Barbershops and beauty shops
- Automobile service and gas stations
- Theaters, assembly halls
- Marine supply stores
- Banks
- Music shops
- Restaurants
- Furniture and home appliance stores
- Hotels, motels, tourist homes, boardinghouses, roominghouses, inns
- Office buildings
- Office supply stores
- Churches
- Libraries
- Hardware stores
- Hospitals
- Funeral homes or mortuaries
- Electronics
- Clubs and lodges
- Farmer/Village Market
- Public utilities
- Off-street parking
- Business signs
- Temporary signs
- Church bulletin boards and identification signs
- Accredited residential care facility, rehab, skilled care, assisted living facility
- Firehouses and rescue squad facilities
- Micro-brewery and micro-distillery with a retail or restaurant component
- Record stores
- Antique stores
- Video sales and rentals
- Driver instruction
- Spa sales and service
- Exercise studios
- Printing and newspapers
- Health food stores
- Bed and breakfasts
- Photo studios
- Mixed use commercial and residential
- Schools
- Playgrounds
- Day care centers
- Professional services
- Internet and computer services/consultants
- Small solar energy systems
Conditional / special use12
- Dry cleaners
- Laundries and laundry mats
- Cabinetmaker and woodworking shop
- Machinery sales and service
- Retail seafood markets
- Mini warehouses
- Moving and storage warehouses
- Radio station
- Taxi and shuttle service
- Auction
- Large and utility-scale solar energy systems
- Public billiard parlors, poolrooms, bowling alleys, dancehalls, and similar forms of public amusement
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Accessory structures
- Max accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near party lot line1 story
No accessory structure within ten feet of any party lot line shall be more than one story high. All accessory structures shall be less than the main structure in height.
Other
- Exterior wall material
No building may be erected unless the outer walls of such building are of brick, concrete, cinderblock or other masonry material, or of material otherwise approved as to fire resistance in the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.
- Maximum residential percentage in mixed use50 pct
Mixed use commercial and residential; the floorspace and area applicable to the residential use shall not exceed 50 percent of the structure's total square footage, except that in the event that the building is a three-story building the residential use may be 67 percent of the building's square footage and shall be located in the top two stories.
- Maximum temporary structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
Marked off area in front of building may not be structures, but may be of a temporary nature (i.e., mounting can be dismantled in 20 minutes or less), no lower than 30 inches and no higher than four feet.
- Minimum sidewalk width5 ft
All buildings must maintain a five-foot-wide sidewalk in front of their building in the district, if they are within 75 feet of existing sidewalk.
- Public building yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. increase1 ft per ft over 35
A public or semipublic building... may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 35 feet.
- Sidewalk display and dining
Sidewalks on property may be used for display or dining, with walkways 5 ft from curb or obstruction.
Parking
- On-street parking counting
On-street parking spaces may be counted if directly adjacent to the property. If a municipal parking area is within 500 feet of the property, then ten spaces may be counted towards the requirements.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for streets less than 50 ft wide30 ft from centerline
or 30 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width
From the ordinance
This article establishes the Steptoe's District as the downtown overlay district, as an overlay over existing C-1, and was approved by town council on March 20, 2006.